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I thought I might post some recent work up here since we've been a bit negligent lately about putting up what we've been working on.  In the completed work section we have a project for Lifespan: The Depression Initiative , a site with resources for patients and physicians for dealing with depression. The Depression Initiative is the first site we've used the Code Igniter php web application framework on. I found it to be pretty easy to work with and overall was pretty happy with how it functioned.  

We also have recently performed some more work for Name Media , a site for paddlers of all types: Paddle.com .  This time we were on the development side instead of the design side as we were when working on The Truth About Cars. Paddle.com runs on the WordPress platform.  The template is pretty non-standard, including putting pages and posts on the same pages for the categories so the client could easily edit the category overview SEO text within the CMS.

And, now for some sneak previews of projects currently in development.  The Palomino Ballroom's new website is nearing completion:

We’re also working on some additional development for Lifespan – their Health and Benefits intranet site.

Wow! It's hard to believe that we haven't posted anything in the last 6 weeks. June was hectic, July hasn't slowed much. In the last few weeks we've added a couple new sites to the Redwing family. Coleman Realtors came online in mid June, and Picerne Homes went up mid July.

Redwing recently completed a re-design of The Truth About Cars website. We were hired by Name Media to perform the design but not the development of the site (a first for us), so the completed product isn't 100% ours, but fairly close. The in-house developer did a decent job of keeping to the design, although the gray color is not as dark as it should be (IMHO) and he or she used tables in the layout which is a great disappointment for me. Initially I had conceived of the design being scalable horizontally for people with resolutions lower than 1024 x 768, however that was not implemented in the development. My apologies to all of you out there with low browser resolutions, I tried my best. An interesting requirement from Name Media was the belt advertisement at the top. My initial designs had the ad above the header, however, they required it to be placed under the header as they saw a large jump in ad revenue when they moved ads on the site to below the main header. Ads in that location must be more difficult to ignore.